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Our Racist Government Our Silent People
I am here today because I am tired of living in fear
I know now why they didn’t want to give me their names…
Why they tucked in their crosses
Sacrificed to prevent losses
Turned their family tree into plywood
“JUDE JUDIN!!!!”
I heard a Nazi knock on a Jew door
Their hearts beat so loud in their minds they thought the SS could hear them
But it was the “faucet running “…Anne Frank
And they just stood there because they saw what happens when people start running
I heard the threatening phone call Malcolm X’s wife got from the KKK
Her tears drowned out the sound
But then the house was lit on fire
She couldn’t cry enough to extinguish the flames
The Ignorant, Racist:
“The culprits…
I can’t tell you what they looked like or what exactly they were wearing
I just know it was them, you know
Eating that smelly food they eat
Talking that gibberish among themselves
I keep telling them to speak English
Taking over our good neighborhoods
Stealing our jobs for cheap
And them girly boys in their sister’s make up bags
I’ll beat that sodomite til he knows good and well how to procreate
Yea..it was a long time ago
…. I can’t tell us apart so much now
Oswald Killing our president
looked like my friends son shooting up that school
can’t even blame it on them black boys”
I see things happen all the time.
By not telling you, I feel like a criminal
& worse of all
I’ve seen people not say on damn word about it
Because they were afraid they would lose their jobs
Or lose their life if they told you what was going on around them
And I AM SICK OF THEM!
TELLING FABLES ABOUT WHAT THEIR EYES HAVEN’T SEEN
I am sick of them !
Closing their eyes thinking they’re Martin Luther King with they’re “I had a dream’s”
When they are responsible for creating this nightmare
…but we can’t always blame it on them
When we’re not voting
Or attending parent teacher conferences
Town meetings
Or protesting
OR TESTIFYING… or just….just opening up our damn mouth ,
when we know someone is actually listening
I know you are listening.
Do something to make it right!
IG: Nourish_Cruz
I know now why they didn’t want to give me their names…
Why they tucked in their crosses
Sacrificed to prevent losses
Turned their family tree into plywood
“JUDE JUDIN!!!!”
I heard a Nazi knock on a Jew door
Their hearts beat so loud in their minds they thought the SS could hear them
But it was the “faucet running “…Anne Frank
And they just stood there because they saw what happens when people start running
I heard the threatening phone call Malcolm X’s wife got from the KKK
Her tears drowned out the sound
But then the house was lit on fire
She couldn’t cry enough to extinguish the flames
The Ignorant, Racist:
“The culprits…
I can’t tell you what they looked like or what exactly they were wearing
I just know it was them, you know
Eating that smelly food they eat
Talking that gibberish among themselves
I keep telling them to speak English
Taking over our good neighborhoods
Stealing our jobs for cheap
And them girly boys in their sister’s make up bags
I’ll beat that sodomite til he knows good and well how to procreate
Yea..it was a long time ago
…. I can’t tell us apart so much now
Oswald Killing our president
looked like my friends son shooting up that school
can’t even blame it on them black boys”
I see things happen all the time.
By not telling you, I feel like a criminal
& worse of all
I’ve seen people not say on damn word about it
Because they were afraid they would lose their jobs
Or lose their life if they told you what was going on around them
And I AM SICK OF THEM!
TELLING FABLES ABOUT WHAT THEIR EYES HAVEN’T SEEN
I am sick of them !
Closing their eyes thinking they’re Martin Luther King with they’re “I had a dream’s”
When they are responsible for creating this nightmare
…but we can’t always blame it on them
When we’re not voting
Or attending parent teacher conferences
Town meetings
Or protesting
OR TESTIFYING… or just….just opening up our damn mouth ,
when we know someone is actually listening
I know you are listening.
Do something to make it right!
IG: Nourish_Cruz
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